Professor Joan Freeman
NEWS 19/11/2007: Prof Joan Freeman has been honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award for 2007 by the British Psychological Society.
Joan Freeman is a distinguished psychologist working in the development of human abilities to their highest levels. She has conducted and supervised substantial research, notably her continuing study of gifted children since 1974, and has published widely in this area, including 16 books. For the UK government she has written two major reports and provides advice.
She is Visiting Professor at Middlesex University, London, Founding President of the European Council for High Ability (ECHA), Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Honorary Fellow of the College of Teachers and Patron of the National Association for Able Children in Education (NACE). Joan has given hundreds of invited addresses in most parts of the world and appears regularly on television and in the popular media.
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